21. Scars From the Tornado: One Year at Joplin East Middle School, Randy Turner 3,546,050

22. Out of the Wind, D. Ed Hoggatt, 3,808,455

23. Joplin Tornado House of Hope, Tim Bartow 4,204,581

24. 20th and Rangeline, Thomas Meisinger 5,734,833

25. Mayday in Joplin, Donald Clugston 6,489,479

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Copies of 5:41, Spirit of Hope, Scars from the Tornado, and Silver Lining in a Funnel Cloud are available at Always Buying Books and Changing Hands Book Shoppe in Joplin, and Pat's Books in Carthage (and are sometimes carried at Vintage Stock on the Mall). 5:41 and Silver Lining are also available at The Book Guy in Joplin. All titles are available in paperback and e-book formats at Amazon.com.

Dear 11:33 -- First, it has been "almost" five years, not six. If you wanted to start a firestorm, you could not have done better! It wasn't Turner who wrote the book which inspired this blog. He just happens to have the good taste to promote the works of others while having the good sense to promote his own! You liken him to Anne Frank? Wow, that is pretty heady company! Whining? Really? Some call it healing, which will take many of us a lifetime. It is helpful to be able to read the stories of others; to realize that this was a collective experience...if you didn't live it, perhaps you can't understand. If you did live through it, you are some cold-hearted piece of work! --Diane Humphrey

You're right, it seems like the Joplin Tornado was over a decade ago and writing books about how much you were traumatized by it is a cottage industry amongst the whining chattering classes around here.

There is a crying need for yet another book by Turner whining about how the Joplin Globe and CJ Huff needed and deserved destruction in that almighty twister which struck down McClelland Park and destroyed the men's rooms which were the places wherein God started to really really hate Joplin and got away scot free while Turner is sitting traumatized with nothing to do but blog and collect them blog posts and thus write yet another book for flatulent Turner-hags to read and for the rest of us to ridicule.

Yes, yes, I see the crying need for yet another Turner book about the tornado right now myself. How could I have been so blind & cold-hearted as to simply want to move forward as opposed to endlessly and witlessly picking away at the unhealed scab a half-decade or so later?

Do you feel better looking like a fool behind "Anonymous"? Seriously, grow up and move on. Adults who wish to converse and make a situation better are welcome. People who wish to ridicule belong on talk radio. Seriously, read your post and ask yourself how mature you are.

Like or dislike Turner, who cares? Show respect. You sound like the Presidential candidates acting like fools!

About Me

I am a former teacher in the Joplin and Diamond, Missouri, school districts. Before entering the teaching field, I spent 22 years as a reporter and editor for various Southwest Missouri newspapers. I have published three novels, Small Town News, Devil's Messenger, and No Child Left Alive, and seven non-fiction books, The Turner Report, Newspaper Days, Silver Lining in a Funnel Cloud, Greed, Corruption, and the Joplin Tornado, 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, Spirit of Hope: The Year After the Joplin Tornado, Scars from the Tornado and Let Teachers Teach.

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